Investigations of visual pigment changes in fishes

Understanding why organisms possess particular combinations of visual pigments (VPs) is central to visual ecology. Species that adjust spectral sensitivity by changing retinal VPs provide a powerful tool to investigate this question. Changing chromophores (A1 or A2) and altering opsin expression are...

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Main Author: Temple, Shelby Eric
Other Authors: Hawryshyn, Craig W.
Language:English
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Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2295